▲ You Hong-june, director of the National Museum of Korea (Yonhap)

SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Yonhap) -- You Hong-june, director of the National Museum of Korea, has offered to resign amid a controversy over the museum's display of a misattributed calligraphic work from his private collection.

He came under fire after the piece was wrongly introduced as the work of a Korean independence activist before later being found to have been written by a prominent pro-Japanese collaborator during Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of Korea.

The museum removed the item from its ongoing special exhibition following the controversy.

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